JAL328H1 Lecture Notes - Oracle Bone Script, Beijing Dialect, Oracle Bone
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Next quiz will be different asking to memorize writing system. Cangjie developed it off the top of his head; saw inspiration from animal tracts pigeon prints represent pigeon; make that connection nd developed the chinese script from there a legend. Earliest chinese writing from capital of shang dynasty . Another character in history of chinese writing wu ding, first of shang kings, and his reign sees beginning of writing. Fortune telling bones are thrown into fire and cracks occur on them; it"s the cracks that determines the future. No gradual step to step of pictograms to full linguistics writing. There are circumstance evidence for why writing has occurred previously. Cracks with numbers are cracks due to burning. Running commentary of entire process; child born, then write on the bone the result records. Used for ceremonial purposes for making offerings to ancestors. Put either your name (making the offering) or the ancestors to whom offering is made.
